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place to express the peace of my soul and the delight of my 
heart at hearing that you yourself, your foster-brothers, your 
saddle-comrades, and your other intimates, have returned to 
your old studies.! 
_... record in this paper a hundred thanks to Almighty God 
for this favour. I trust that you will continue in your good 
way and that you will acquire abilities and graces and even- 
tually attain to excellence. See that you fall not away from 
the good course, and that you bear in mind the words of his 
holiness Khwaja Hafiz. ‘Old men speak from experience.” 
“Ves, [say unto you, my child, give ear to the instructions of 
the aged.” ; 
I hear that those Chaghatais who stayed in Herat after 
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much ability, and acquired graces, (but) though the Khura- 
sinis are a pleasant folk, and there can be no question about 
their cleverness, there is doubt about their religion, and their 
principles, and they are a nation of make-bates and agitators. 
rT s are alienated from the fathers, and the fathers from 
the sons. Do not be deceived by their plausible ways, and for 
your own safety’s sake, do not let them get out of hand. 
Among the Turkish tribes there is a house which observes 
the Girgan customs (tora giérgan) and in which the fathers 
have been for generations the chiefs? of actions, while the 
mothers have been the chiefs of domestic matters. They have 
served our family with life-long devotion. In heat and in 
cold, at home and abroad, they have not for a minute, or the 
twinkling of an eye, swerved from their duty, and have always 
done good service. Study this family, proceeding steadily 
along like a good roadster,® and select from it, after examina- 
ing to the opinions of thoughtful Begs who are of lofty mind, 
and who honestly express their opinions (qaraju. e P. de C. 
Dict., p. 417 s.v. qaraji). Never neglect the sentiments of those 
1 sabaq agiryha. I am not sure of the meaning. 
2 gil bashlaghan. See P. de Courtelle’s Dict., pp. 150, 151 s.v. bash- 
lamaq. The word bashlag&n occurs again, p. 150 of Klaproth’s article 
nine lines from foot. Can the faidly bate been i i 
Khan belonged, and be descended from the 5 or 6,000 Turkamans who 
entered the service of Babur’s grandfather? Can the two women who 
accompanied Babur’s flight from Samarkand in 1502 (Haid, f. 95) have 
belonged to it ? 
3 ishkinka, the ishkin of P. de C. Dict.115. Perhaps the whole phrase 
is ‘‘ putting him (the prospective i on his trial as if he were a 
horse, and you wanted to see if he ambled well.” See also Zenker, p. 55. 
